More than a shop expands its Software product selection include Open Source ...-TheStreet.com (blog)

More than a store offers a full line of commercially available consumer products such as Microsoft Office, PhotoShop and DreamWeaver. Representatives of companies just announced that they will now also carry full line of free open source products from 15 March 2011.

Representatives of more than a store felt they had to start offering free open source software alternatives to the commercially available software products. Are part of their corporate mission is to provide customers with solutions rather than just a list of products.

Recently, one of their customers was confronted with a situation where its Windows Vista operating system so corrupt that he no longer could reboot his computer had become. He had important information on his computer that he needed to be able to access. Its windows operating system reinstall was not an option if he had lost his installation disk with the receipt. The customer had originally bought its operating system from another software company. More than a store, so representatives could not simply just send him a different installation disk.

Because he had access to another computer and an internet connection, were representatives of more than a store still able to provide assistance. Representatives took him to a Web site to download a free copy of the operating system led Ubunta.

Ubunta is an open source computer operating system that can be installed on each computer.It can also be run from a CD, leaving the current Windows operating system in tack. Open source software is software that is not patented, and are free for anyone to use. The goal in making it is free to encourage individuals within the community to further develop and refine the product.

When most people think of a word processing program, is the first name that often comes Microsoft Office. If asked for good software package for editing photos, most people call PhotoShop. These are great software programs that are well written and easy to use, however, they are a bit pricey.

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